Recognizing the Effects Caused by an Action in a Declarative Sentence

An important requirement for any artificial intelligence program is its capability to understand what has been communicated to it. How does the program recognize all the potential effects when it is given a declarative sentence involving an action? There are three major bodies of knowledge that need to be learned. The first body of knowledge is the English grammar. The second body of knowledge involves each individual action. The last body of knowledge acts as a bridge between the English grammar and actions. This knowledge teaches the program how to use the learned grammar to express a thought about an action. In this paper, our program uses this knowledge to understand the intention of a given declarative sentence that uses an action verb. We will discuss what is involved in the learning for each of these bodies of knowledge and illustrate how to use them to understand a given sentence. Specifically, we discuss in detail on how the effects caused by an action referenced in a declarative sentence are recognized. Understanding the intention of a sentence, especially a sentence involving cause and effects, is an important first step for a program to perform logical reasoning. Object-Oriented paradigm is used to analyze the problem and design the solution attacking the problem.